Slowdown!

Why it is important to slowdown and think right about your priorities.

Living in the past for too long or too little

Past is a thing that shapes your present circumstances. Present circumstances and the actions taken in them shapes your future. Thus, an important source of future circumstance also includes those considerations of what have we made out of our past. Spending too much time in the past results in inaction, feeling of victimhood and vicious …

Perfection is Evil

Don’t let the evil get to you, do what you must to push out and improve iteratively

Every Day

Realise the power of the day you’re blessed with, each day brings a canvas to be painted with a new story!

Mental Health – A Paradox of Modern Living

Mental health is the basis of our Human Experience. Our mind has evolved over these millions of years, as a species we have seen the times of Dinosaur & their extinctions, abundance, scarcity, long periods of conflict and war and equal or longer period of peace and harmony. As a species we have witnessed so …

Equanimity

Equanimity is one of the epitome states of being liberated.

Facing Oneself

Don’t be afraid of yourself, put down your phone and spend sometime with yourself.

A letter of self assurance on fear!

Dear Pawan, Fear is a tyrant! Everyone has fears and issues, everyone has ways to resolve them, everyone has motives to deal with them. Some find it easy to keep them under the bed and some face it head on. People keeping their fears under bed and trying to live a blissful life of an …

Life is Fragile

There is nothing more apparent now that the life indeed is fragile, we may plan for the future and we may stay stuck in the past but one thing that we keep loosing in both the cases is present, the now! We could have never thought that such a small thing could jolt the usual …

If you’re not happy today, you might not be even tomorrow!

Remember it isn't what happens to you but how you respond to it matters !

Approval from others!

Most people live for approvals from others, approval of bosses, colleagues, friends relatives, loved ones and all kind of different people; who ever we come across during the course of our lives. They certainly do fail to understand that they do not need any such approval. They should completely understand that they do not need …

Self Care

You only have this body as your vehichle to carry you through this experience called life. Take up a practicle, sustainable exercise schedule. Allow your body the access to nutritious food, it deserves all the goodness around the world. A healthy body becomes a fertile ground to develop a healthy mind. A healthy mind, in-turn, …

Relevance of Spirituality!

Spirituality is more than relevant in today's work cultures across the world, the fractured capitalist world which thrives on growth every year is now stretching the materialistic side of the world beyond its means. The ever growing pressure of growing every year on the organizations and the current prevalent definition of success has ensured that …

Joy and Sorrow is within you!

There is no better friend and a worst enemy of you than your own brain! A brain with consciousness is also referred to as Mind. Our mind is our friend when it is the source of Joy even in the external difficulties. Our mind may turn out to be our biggest enemy as it can …

Reliance 42nd AGM, The Indian Growth Story

Here are a few quick catching up points of the Reliance 42nd Annual General Meet Saudi Aramco Picture (cnbc.com) , RIL logo from Wikipedia Saudi Aramco to invest $75 Bn to in exchange of 20% ownership of oil-to-chemical businessSaudi Aramco will supply 500,000 barrels of oil to Jamnagar refinerySaudi Aramco will also have proportionate stake in British …

Perfection equals Paralysis

There are so many ideas that we as individuals have, there are so many great ideas that don’t see the light of the day and this is attributed to the insistence of Perfection. If everyone always looked for getting the perfect products out, there would be a standstill in the market. If you leave the …

Essence of Less In the Overwhelm

Your material possessions consume you, they take away the most important base of your life, i.e, time! The possessions consume you to your core, the hoarding of more eventually will give you less time for yourself and for the things that truly matter. The power lies in choosing what's important to you, be conscious of …

Toxic People and Relationships

Acknowledging toxic people is one of the important step towards inching closer to being happy in our day to day in our life. We also know that being happy day to day brings changes in our daily habits, our daily habits accumulate consequences over a period of time. This is so powerful that, in the …

Period of Lull

Many times, there comes a point where everything seem to be coming to a standstill. You loose the sight for all that used to matter to you! It takes you through a guilt cycle. A vicious cycle, which starts with a period of lull, guilt and then to suppress it we naturally tend to get …

Taking Life too Seriously!

You got up this morning and the previous days issues are still lingering in your head! Today is your weekly off and waking up like this has already ruined your morning. You shrug off the lingering and get up from you bed to your kitchen, make yourself some coffee or tea and sit down in …

Myth Busting – Wake up early!

I have seen so many people out there telling other people that waking up early is the solution to all their problems. Parents telling thier kids to wake up early and that somehow waking up at 5 AM would change the fortune of the kid. Source : Pawan's Photo A lot of discussion on social …

Little Things

There are many of us who don't appreciate the impact little things have in our lives! we take many of them for granted. We even ignore them and sometime go on with our life mindlessly. Take our eating habits for example, we end up eating those candies that someone in our office got for the …

The Art of Never Giving up!

Life is usually unfair, this is what we keep hearing from people around us and somewhere we also feel the same. This could be true in the sense to acknowledge that life is unfair minus the usually part of it! The only way to treat the unfairness of life is to master the art the …

Looking Ahead!

Life will throw you out bound and hurt you when you least expect it! it is your ability to persist in the hard times that matters!

Patience

It is tough to be patient when you're in a habit to yearn for instant coffee and results!

An open letter to PM Modi

Dear Prime Minister, Many congratulations to your re-election as the Prime Minister of India. Indeed a historic win and vindication of the work you've undertaken including the long term overarching policy decisions. Some of the facts in these elections are fascinating, I am including some of the facts that I have gathered form the available …

How much is enough!

Read on to find out if you have enough!

Motivation is self defeating, Action is next to God!

Instant motivation stimulated from external factors including through reading, motivational videos etc doesn't last to make any significant change. Don't believe in me, try it! try reading, listening and watching motivation inducing content and see it for yourself. After a while you'll get numb to the all this and your mind will perceive this chatter …

Decoding brain for a more fulfilling life !

Our brain has evolved in the past million of years as a result of evolution . We have come beyond the primitive lives and have moved to more complex of lifestyles.Our prefrontal cortex which is responsible for all the major thinking and our physical movement has given us the ability of plan our short term and …

Senseless Consumerism

We all struggle with having so much around, still it doesn't fulfil. Read on !

Oodles of everything

That's the thing, we are surrounded by so much! we are the most privileged generation there ever existed in the recorded history which has Oodles of choices for almost everything. As per the research data on internet, there are about 40 plus varieties of coffees available for us to choose from! No wonder we are …

There is positivity within you!

Positivity is all around, we just have to be more conscious of it 🙂

Setbacks

Setbacks need not be the end of it all, it just means to readjust and move-on.

17 good habits to get you in some shape!

Get into a habit of a good night sleep. A night slept good is the foundation of any good habit that needs to be build.Switch your phone on do not disturb mode while you are in your bed room and preparing to go to sleep and manage the contact exceptions in the do not disturb …

Important Lessons from Corporate Life So Far ..

It's better to under-promise and over-deliver. I have seen many people in my career who would end up agreeing to anything that is expected out of them and not only just accept them but they’d add up something more from their own side, just to look good at the time of accepting to deliver on …

The Paradigm Shift!

What can we all learn from the changes around us ? The only thing that there is the fact that change is the only constant. Change could bring happiness or remorse. Change can feel like a change or sometimes change can just not feel like a change at all. Change is one of the significant …